Marques typographiques, ou, Recueil des monogrammes, chiffres, enseignes, emblèmes, devises, rébus et fleurons des libraires et imprimeurs qui ont exercé en France depuis l'introduction de l'imprimerie en 1470 jusqu'à la fin du seizième siècle : à ces marques sont jointes celles des libraires et imprimeurs qui pendant la même période ont publié, hors de France, des livres en langue française

by: Silvestre, L.-C. (Louis-Catherine), 1792-1867

Publication date: 1867

Topics: Printers' marks, French

Publisher: A Paris : Renou et Maulde

Collection: bostonpubliclibrary; americana

Digitizing sponsor: Boston Public Library

Contributor: Boston Public Library

Language: French

Volume: v.1

1,310 devices, with names of owners and dates when used

Originally issued in 9 parts, 1853-1865. The work was interrupted by the death of compiler L.-C. Silvestre in 1867, and the proposed descriptive, comparative, and biographical indexes were never published; index of publishers and printers at end was issued as "livraison x" of the work

Both volumes have t.p.s with the publisher's imprint "Imprimerie Renou et Maulde". Vol. 1 has a special t.p., with imprint "Chez P. Jannet, successeur de L.-C. Silvestre, 1853"

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